Hook-and-eye package.



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T. DE (l. RICHARDSN. HOOK AND EYE PACKAGE.

(Application Bled Jan. 22, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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THOMAS DE Q. RICHARDSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 676,824, dated J une18, 1901.

Application filed January 22, 1901. Serial No. 44,262. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS DE Q. RICHARD- sON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Hook-and-Eye Packages, of which the following isa specification.

Two well known types of eyes have heretofore been used .alternately inconnection with the hooks employed as fastenings for garments, the eyesof one of the said types consisting each of a piece of wire bent to theform of an approximately U-sha-ped loop the side members of whichterminate at their free extremities in thread engaging bends, and whicheyes are hereinafter termed loop eyes, and the eyes of the other typeconsisting each of an approximately straight bar or body of wire, therespective ends of which are equipped with thread engaging bends, andwhich are known to the trade and public as invisible eyes.

Hooks and eyes have heretofore, for transportation and convenience ofhandling, and sale, been mounted by sets,-each set usually consisting ofa hook and a loop eye engaged therewith,-upon carriers, usuallyconsisting of panels or cards of paste board, the sets being arrangedupon the face of the card in parallel rows, and secured thereto bystitching with thread, or otherwise.

Inasmuch as for some purposes one type of i eyes, andfor another purposethe other type of eyes, are employed by the purchaser of the hooks, vandas it is ordinarilyimpossible for the purchaser of a quantity of hooksto know in advance on what garments or parts thereof all the hookspurchased will be employed, or to determine how many of each kind ofeyes will be required, it has been proposed to furnish with each of thepackages of hooks and eyes, and consisting of a card and sets of hooksand loop eyes mounted thereon, a number of invisible eyes for use whendesired in connection with the hooks in lieu of the loop eyes, so thatthe purchaser of hooks will receive not only loop eyes, but also anumber of the invisible eyes.

The difficulty in so supplying the invisible eyes to the purchaserresides in mounting them upon the same card which contains the hooks andloop eyes, Without increasing the size of the cards, or the costthereof, or of the boxes in which they are packed, and in such manner,moreover, that they shall be readily removable from the card by thepurchaser.

The loop eyes and the hooks lend themselves very readily to the mountingarrangement heretofore referred to, inasmuch as in such mounting eachhook and each eye is engaged through its two thread engaging bends tothe card or carrier, and the respective members of each set by theirmutual engagement mutually furnish each other an additional means ofattachment to the'card, and it is desirable to retain this arrangementand mounting.

It is desirable, although not in all cases essential furthermore, thatthe arrangement referred to by which the sets of hooks and eyes arearranged in straight rows upon the card shall be adhered to, not onlybecause the public have become accustomed to receiving the packages insuch form, but also because special machines have been arranged andconstructed for the application of the hooks and eyes in the particularmounting referred to, and any change in the application of such hooksand eyes to the cards would involve great expense in the alteration ofexisting or provision of new machinery.

My invention aims to provide hook and eye packages especially but notrestrictively of the character hereinbefore set forth, that is to say,in which hooks and loop eyes are by sets attached to the cards inparallel rows, which shall, without extension of the card area, ormaterial readjustment of the means by which such hooks and loop-eyes aremounted upon and attached to the card,-be provided with and carry therequired number of invisible eyes, which, obviously, may or may notequal the number of loop eyes upon the card.

In its broader aspect, myinvention comprehends the application to theface of a card, upon which are mounted and secured hooks and loop eyes,of a series of what are termed invisible eyes, said invisible eyes beingsecured to the card by the same means, preferably thread stitches, bywhich the first mentioned devices are attached thereto, whereby IOO acompact and convenient package is formed; space is economized; one andthe same sewing operation which secures the hooks or loop eyes to thecard is also effective to secure the invisible eyes to the card; thecomplete article furnishes to the user a series of hooks and anassortment of loop eyes and invisible eyes to be used with said hooks asrequired. I prefer to secure the hooks and eyes by thread to the card bypassing thread through the card and through the thread engaging bends ofthe hooks and eyes; it is manifest, however, that the engagement of thethread with the hooks or eyes by passing directly through the threadengaging bends of the same is not essential.

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated in Figure 1 in top planview, and in Figure 2 in sectional elevation on the dotted line 2-2 ofFigure l, a package of hooks and eyes, the arrangementrepresented,-which is,how ever, subject to variation in practice,-beingthat to which I prefer to resort.

In the accompanying drawing, a indicates the card or carrier upon whichthe hooks and eyes are mounted, which cards are of such size as theconvenience of the manufacturer or the usage of trade may require.

Upon the face of the card are mounted two rows b c of sets of hooks andeyes, said rows being arranged in parallelism in the usual manner andlsecured to the card in the usual manner by rows of stitches extendingalong vand passing through the thread engaging bends at the respectiveedges of each row of sets of hooks and eyes, which stitches may, ofcourse, be of any usual or preferred character.

d are the invisible eyes, and in the preferred arrangement of myinvention I arrange them in the space intermediate of the two rows ofsets of hooks and loop eyes, and each with one thread engaging bendunderlying the thread engaging bend of the adjacent member of one of therows of sets of hooks and loop eyes, so that said thread engaging bendsof said invisible eyes are caught in and secured by the thread loops orstitches by which thethread engaging bends of a set of hooks and loopeyes are secured.

As a result of this specic arrangement, it will be seen that theoperation of securing the invisible eyes upon the face of the card isone with the operation of securing the ordinary hooks and loop eyes uponthe card, whereby economy of time and labor in the formation of thepackage is secured.

In the manufacture of this specific embodiment of my invention it is, ofcourse, immaterial whether the thread engaging bends of the invisibleeyes are over or under the thread engaging bends of the adjacent membersof the set of engaged hooks and loop eyes.

Itis, furthermore, unimportant whether or not the thread engaging bendsof the invisible eyes are in exact coincidence with thread engagingbends of the adjacent set of hooks and loop eyes, the fact being that inpractice the outermost or uppermost thread engaging bends will tend toslip laterally or lengthwise of the thread loop which holds them uponthe card and somewhat out of registry with the underlying threadengaging bends.

Any preferred and suitable form of stitches may be employed to securethe thread engaging bends of the sets ofhooks and loop eyes, and thethread engaging bends of the invisible eyes, to the card, and theoperation may, of course, be performed by hand or by machine.

When, however, as in the illustrated and preferred embodiment of myinvention, the thread engaging bends of the invisible eyes and thethread engaging bends of an adjacent row of hooks or of loop eyesoverlap and are secured to the card by one and the same set of stitches,I prefer to perform the operation by a machine capable of engaging thethread e with the card and said overlapped thread engaging bends in whatis known as the Singer loop stitch.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. A commercial package ofhooks and eyes comprising a carrier card and a row of hooks and loopeyes, two rows of thread stitching which secure said hooks and eyes tothe card, and a series of invisible eyes secured to the card by one ofsaid rows of thread stitching, substantially as set forth.

2. A commercial package of hooks and eyes comprising a carrier card, aplurality of inde pendent rows of sets of hooks and eyes, the sets ineach row presenting their thread engaging bends at the respective edgesof the row, and a series of invisible eyes, terminal thread engagingbends of said'invisible eyes registering with the thread engaging bendsof members of one of the first mentioned rows,

terminal thread engaging bends of said in-` visible eyes being securedto the card by means common to them and to the thread engaging bends ofone of the rows first referred to substantially as set forth.

3. A commercial package of hooks and eyes -comprising a carrier card, aplurality of independent rows of united or engaged sets of hooks andeyes, the sets in each row presenting their thread engaging bends at there' spective edges of the row, a series of invisible eyes, terminalthread engaging bends of said invisible eyes being secured to the cardby a thread common to them and to thread engaging bends first referredto, substantially as set forth.

4. A commercial package of hooks and eyes comprising a carrier card, aplurality of independent rows of united or engaged sets of hooks andeyes, the sets in each row presenting their thread engaging bends at therespective edges of the row, a series of invisible eyes disposed in thespace between said rows, terminal thread engaging bends of saidinvisible eyes registering with thread engaging bends of one of the rowsfirst referred to, and

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terminal thread engaging bends of said inengaging bends of saidinvisible eyes being visible eyes being Secured to the card by securedto the card by a thread common to means common to them and to the threadenthem and to the thread engaging bends of one I5 gaging bends of one ofthe rows first referred of the rows first referred to, substantially as5 to substantially as set forth. set forth.

5. A commercial package of hooks and eyes In testimony that I claim theforegoing as eomprisingapluralityof independent rows of my invention Ihave hereunto signed my united or engaged sets of hooks and eyes, thename this 15th day of January, A. D. 1901. 2o

sets in each row presenting their thread en- THOMAS DE Q. RICHARDSON. 1ogaging bends at the respective edges of the In presence 0frow, and aseries of invisible eyes disposed in BRADBURY BEDELL,

the space between said rows, terminal thread SAMUEL J. TAYLOR.

